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Parents and advocates press VDOE and Board over alleged special-education failures and enforcement gaps
Summary
Multiple parents and advocates told the board of alleged violations of IDEA and local noncompliance, urging the Virginia Department of Education to enforce corrective actions, reinstate services and remove or investigate hearing officers; the board heard calls for clearer enforcement mechanisms and review of hearing-officer practices.
A stream of public commenters used the board’s public-comment period to deliver forceful, often emotional allegations about systemic failures in special education and demanded that the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) and the Board of Education enforce federal IDEA responsibilities.
Kathy Halverson described a parent’s account of repeated restraint and seclusion of a child in Powhatan County schools, saying the child was restrained "until he started turning blue" and that documentation of restraint and seclusion was missing. Janice Woodcock Jackson said she had filed more than 30 IDEA due-process complaints and urged the…
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